“Having lived most of my life in the most crowded city in the world, I have become used to this constant physical proximity. Wherever I look the gaze is broken by people; in train and subway I am constantly brushed… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
“Leo Rubinfein over to ask questions for his book. He asked me what I most regretted, having lived half a century here, and witnessed all the change. I said that I most regretted the loss of a kind of symbiosis between people and where they lived, a kind of agreement to respect each other. I again mention the paradigm—the builders… — Donald Richie Copy Share
“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I didn't have, and I could order this environment in the way that I couldn't in my actual life. Then, when I learned to write, I learned that I could do this not only for myself, but for other… — Donald Richie Copy Share
“What do I want to be when I grow up? An attractive role would be that of the bunjin. He is the Japanese scholar… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
“In the same way both Lincoln and the Japanese regard people. These are also a kind of currency. A man is worth what he… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
“As always, so polite that he is at the beginning distant, and yet always determined. This is because he has uses for us all.… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, 'Is this all?' And it ends about 10 years… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
“What happened was that sometimes I was, from a young age, put in the theater to watch movies because they kept me quiet and… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
“Having lived most of my life in the most crowded city in the world, I have become used to this constant physical proximity. Wherever… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
“Late, going home, I pass a group of squatting high schoolers. One of the boys, obviously seeking to impress the girls, says that foreigners… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
“In the bath the attitude toward sex is representative. No people have it more firmly in place. They are a bit puritanical sometimes, and… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
“Owen is utterly out of whatever closet he may once have been in. Is resident Concerned Gay Medical Personnel, or some such. This being… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
“Here we would notice that what we would call Japanese aesthetics (in contrast to Western aesthetics) is more concerned with process than with product,… — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
